Sentence examples for retroactive damages from inspiring English sources
British Columbia's Tobacco Damages and Health Care Cost Recovery Act is similar to laws enacted by Florida and at least two other states, and allows it to seek retroactive damages for treating smoking related diseases.
There are other benefits to be had, here, including setting broad precedents and ensuring that both companies can claim more in retroactive damages should a decision go their way.
"I would have not known that I have the right for my rent to be reduced, and I would not have known about my right to ask for retroactive damages.
In January, a federal judge ordered the city to remedy years of discriminatory hiring practices by the Fire Department by giving black and Latino applicants jobs in the department, as well as offering retroactive pay and other damages.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the City of New York to remedy years of discriminatory hiring in the Fire Department by giving hundreds of black and Latino applicants jobs, along with years of retroactive pay, and offering thousands of others some damages.
In a settlement announced by the Labor Department on Monday, LinkedIn will pay more than $3.3 million in retroactive overtime wages and more than $2.5 million in damages to workers in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.
Now as DataTreasury's infringement actions are moving toward trial and the award of substantial damages, banks are asking Congress to legalize its robbery through a retroactive amendment that would allow it to stay pending litigation while it makes another attempt at invalidating the patent.
Presumably these appointments were retroactive.
